Okay, so two days I put in a bid on ebay for an item that ends today (Saturday), early in the morning. Real early in the morning.
So today, I wake up, go check my email, and find three emails in a row that are ebay-related. The first one tells that I've one the item. The second one is the invoice from the ebay seller.
And the third one tells me that I have gotten an unpaid item strike from an ebay seller.
In my six years on ebay I have never gotten an unpaid item strike. So I thinking this seller is a real a-hole. Just because the auction ended several hours ago and I didnn't pay right away, he sends out an unpaid item strike? Is this how he does business, bullying buyers by giving out unpaid item strikes and then maybe withdrawing them if they do pay later?
The first thing I was going to do was to email the seller and ask him what's going on. Then I thought about contacting ebay to see if I could get any help.
But then something in my gut told me to examine that unpaid item strike email again. As I later found out, I was too surprised by the "unpaid item strike" thing that I didn't examine that email carefully the first time I saw it.
So I looked at that email again, and see that it does not have my name anywhere on it (For those who don't know: any email that is sent from ebay or through ebay address by your full name so you know that it originated from ebay).
Secondly, I check the auction number and it did not match up with the number of the item I won on ebay.
(Cue sigh of relief)
Yes, my friends, that unpaid item strike email was a fake or spoof email. I'm pretty good at spotting fake ebay/paypal emails, but like I said, this was the first one I have gotten of this nature, and I was fooled at first. The timing of it was pretty weird though.
Anyway, for those of you curious, here's the item number from the fake email:
160077153167
You can check it out on ebay (glad I don't owe $30,900.00!
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